WFAA's "series uncovered widespread recruiting fraud among Marine, Navy and Air Force recruiters in North Texas. Not only were recruiters lying about the academic qualifications of their enlistees, they were teaching the enlistees to lie about their background, thereby planting the idea that the Armed Forces are corrupt."

This segment of Prime Time Live won a Peabody award in 1995 and was an investigation of pap smear labs. A legal challenge led to a decision in September of 2002 that the hidden camera investigation did not represent an invasion of privacy under Arizona law.

Rare, major CBS News "Sixty Minutes" investigation of stem cell hucksters abroad who claim to help those with illnesses for which there is no known cure. The program used hidden cameras and telecom to investigate.

CBS "48 Hours" sent a worker into a Federal Beef Processors plant in South Dakota to film questionable practices with a hidden camera provided by the producers.
The company immediately sought and got an injunction to stop CBS from airing the footage, charging that to make it public would divulge trade secrets and damage the local economy. CBS challenged the ruling, which the South Dakota Supreme Court upheld. CBS then appealed to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, who very swiftly overturned the lower court judgment in an emergency ruling and allowed CBS to include the footage in its broadcast without delay. Blackmun refused to exercise prior restraint and argued that to block the network would “cause irreparable harm to the news media and is intolerable under the First Amendment.” The segment aired on February 9, 1994. It made the firm’s name public, ostensibly because of the company’s legal action, and caused the firing of the whistle-blowing employee.